May 25
So Smart Car Tipping Is A Thing Now
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Smart Car owners in the San Francisco area are feeling slightly less smug these days thanks to a spate of car tipping incidents. That’s CAR tipping, not COW tipping.
May 22
How Would You Feel If Your Boss Was A Robot? The Employees Of Deep Knowledge Are About To Find Out
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Ladies and gentlemen, we’d best get ready to welcome our new robot overlords – an AI has just made it onto a company’s board of directors. The intelligence, known as Vital, was promoted to the board by Japanese venture capital firm Deep Knowledge, for its ability to pick up on market trends humans might miss.
May 22
The Taiwanese company’s new video card, based on Nvidia’s latest GPU design, boasts sizable factory-overclocking and a large cooler. It also undergoes “server level” durability testing before arriving in your hands.
May 21
What a glass or two of red wine can do to your pearly whites! But never
you mind. A new study published in the American Chemical Society’s
Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry has revealed that red wine is
not only healthy for your heart, but for your teeth. It fights cavities!
May 21
Bough Bikes is a world leader in the field of handmade all-wood bicycles, having produced over 300 pedal-powered two-wheelers from sustainably harvested French Oak. Now the Dutch manufacturer is, ahem, branching out into electrobikes, showing off two prototype electric wooden bikes at this year’s NYCxDesign.
May 21
Hope For Successful Alzheimer’s Drug Comes After Compound Reverses The Disease In Mouse Models
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Researchers at Saint Louis University have successfully reduced the
symptoms of Alzheimer’s in mice genetically engineered to have
Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The specific molecular compound that was used
in the study, antisense oligonucleotide (OL-1), attacked the most widely-studied cause of AD, the accumulation of amyloid beta protein in the brain.
May 20
Wanna Hear A Joke? This Nifty Little Robot’s Got A Few – And It Can Tell If You’re Interested
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Looks like comedians are the latest in a long line of professions that can start feeling threatened by the robot revolution. Earlier today, Japanese scientists unveiled EMIEW2, a conversational robot with its own sense of humor – and the ability to tell when one of its jokes has fallen flat.
May 20
The beta program for PlayStation Now is finally going next-gen. The games streaming service -which allows users to play PS3 games like they already stream movies on services such as Netflix – went live on the PlayStation 4 today; those who’ve registered should receive a voucher in short order.
May 19
Those who want to practice meditation are often initially challenged to
pick ‘the best way’ to meditate. Some experts argue for mindfulness
meditation, like focusing on your breathing or on body parts, or about a
specific object or even a real problem one is experiencing. Others
prefer a non-directed, open-minded meditation in which one allows
thoughts to come and go without dwelling on them or judging them or even
reacting to them. A team of researchers from the Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, the University of Oslo, and the University of
Sydney recently published their findings on the respective methods and
their effects on the brain as seen on magnetic resonance imagery (MRI).
May 19
A parking lot made from thick, hexagonal solar cells tough enough to
support the weight of a tractor? It’s more likely than you think.. A
12-by-36 foot prototype "solar parking lot" made from the super-tough
panels can generate enough power by day to keep nearby street lamps and
signs safely glowing at night.
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